Manisha Koirala’s married life ended

Since the marriage of actress Manisha Koirala with businessman Samrat Dahal in 2010, lots of news of having problem in their married life were coming in various media report. Manisha was caught in a very unpleasant drunken state. The actress had even posted on a social networking site about her unhappy state of mind.

Likewise, now what has come in media is that her two-year-long married life has ended. On July 28, The Times of India (TOI) has written “Manisha is in Mumbai and happy,” saying as revealed by a friend of the actress. According to TOI, the couple decided to separate a couple of weeks ago. Just a few months after tying the knot, Manisha had revealed her close friends about her unhappy marriage. However, soon everything goes well and returned to Nepal. But the differences deepened with time and Manisha returned to India. However, Manisha still goes to Nepal as her family lives there.

Movie Review – Maya’s Bar

Coupled with big expectations from extensive advertisements, hype, and big star casts "Maya’s Bar" was released in Kathmandu valley on July 27, 2012. In the theatres out of valley, the movie will be released on this Friday (August 3). The third directorial venture of Dinesh DC, "Maya’s Bar" is produced by Sunil Manadhar and features actors like Rajesh Hamal, Karishma Manandhar, Nisha Adhikari and Gajit Bista in leading roles.

Story:

Maya’s Bar is the story of Maya (Nisha Adhikari) and her family. Maya lives happily with her husband Gajit and a son, Bishal until they face a financial crisis. To cope with the financial problem Gajit joins fight club as a fighter and Maya joins a dance bar as a dancer. They both work for a company of Trilok Rana (played by Rajesh Hamal). But, both Gajit and Maya are not happy with their spouse’s profession. Gajit and Maya would occasionally express their respective dissatisfaction on Gajit’s work as a fighter and Maya’s work as a dancer. I wouldn’t like to ruin your movie viewing experiences by telling the story and problem that leads to the unexpected death of Maya (oops …).

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Basulli (The Flute) selected in Venice Film Festival

Nepali movie ‘Bansuli’ has been selected in the 69th Venice Film Festival, to be held in Italy from August 29 to September 8, 2012. The director of the movie, Min Bahadur Bham, has also written the story and the screenplay of the movie.

The short movie produced by Black Horse Pictures in association with Underground Talkies, is 15 minutes long. Out of the total of 1752 short movies submitted, ‘Bansuli’ was one of the 18 movies selected in the festival. The movie features a 12-year-old Bijuli from remote Jumla in Nepal.  The movie features Nikita Budha Thapa, Ghanashyam Giri, Naresh Bhandari and Hira Bijuli Nepali among others.

xnepali.net team would like to congratulate the ‘Bansuli’ team for the selection of the movie in the prestigious film festival.

Nepali Movie – Maya’s Bar (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Maya’s Bar’ is releasing on  July 27, 2012. The movie directed by Dinesh DC features Rajesh Hamal, Gajit Bista, Nisha Adhikari, Karishma Manandhar and Saroj KC in leading roles.

The movie features the cinematography of Purushottam Pradhan, fight direction of N.B. Maharjan, music direction of Suresh Adhikari, and editing of Banish Shah.

Crew Background

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Miss Nepal Shristi Shrestha in Miss World

Miss Nepal 2012, Shristi Shrestha, is currently in China to participate in Miss World beauty contest. The contest started on July 18 and the final is going to be held on August 18, 2012.

23-year-old Miss Nepal Shristi is almost 6 feet tall and has international modeling experience.

Here are some photos of Shristi with other beauty queens from all over the world.

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Highway – Big Buzz and the hype

The movie ‘Highway’ had created a big buzz and a hype among Nepali youths before its release. Probably, ‘Highway’ is the first movie successful in creating such a big buzz before it’s release. It sure is critically aclaimed and is the first Nepali movie to be featured in Berlin International Film Festival.

Thanks to publicity and talks, the audience had a huge expectation from the movie. After the public release of the movie, majority of the audience think that the buzz and publicity was over hyped.

Few reasons ‘Highway’ was successful in creating such a big hype are:

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Movie Review – Highway

The most awaited Nepali film which officially screened in the Berlin Film Festival is finally released today. Highway is the first feature movie directed by Deepak Rauniyar and features Saugat Malla, Dayahang Rai, Karma, Reecha Sharma, Asha Magarati, Rabindra Mishra in main roles.

Story: 

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Yuma Rai- Miss Rai 2012

Yuma Rai was crowned Miss Rai 2012 in the beauty contest held in Rastriya Naach Ghar, Jamal on Thursday.

(Photo credit: Dipesh Raj Dhimal/Purbelitimes)

Seli Rai became the First Runner Up and Srija Rai became the Second Runner Up.  In this contest, the Third Runner Up was also announced and it goes to Bidiyok Rai.

Yuma received cash prize of Rs 50,000 whereas First, Second and Third Runner Ups received Rs 20,000 each.

 Top 5 Contestants     (Photo Credit: Facebook)

Likewise, other title winners are

Miss Rai Talent- Seli Rai

Miss Rai Friendship- Goma Rai

Ninamba Award winner- Algina Rai

Miss Rai Discipline- Aruna Rai

Miss Rai Personality- Sharda Rai

Miss Rai Veiwer’s Choice –Yuma Rai

Corruption case against 65 principals of government schools in Saptari

Cases have been filed in District Administration Office (DAO), Saptari against 65 school principals in corruption charges. RSS writes quoting DAO officer Bishnuranjan Baral that 17 principals of the secondary schools, six principals of lower secondary, 40 of primary schools and two teachers from Madrassa schools have been accused.

Majority of the petitioners are chairman and other officials of the School Management Committees and some are guardians of the schools too.

In the case filed on December, 2011 against Amodhilal Mandal of Rastriya Primary School, Trikaul, Mandal was found guilty, so sent to Saptari District Prison, Rajbiraj, in April while some of the principals have returned the embezzled money.

Other filed cases are against Ramakanta Yadav of the Mahendra Chunni Janata Higher Secondary School, Manaraja including Mohammad Hussein of Shishubari, Digambar Saha of Shankar Higher Secondary School, Hamsha Narayan Mehata of Kushaha etc.

Nepali Movie – Highway (pre-release review)

Nepali movie ‘Highway’ is releasing on July 20, 2012. The movie directed by Deepak Rauniyar features Karma, Saugat Malla, Reecha Sharma, Binaya Shrestha, Eelum, Dayahang Rai, Rajan Khatiwada, Asha Magarati, Shristi Ghimire, Mamata Rai, Sandip Chhetri, Bhumika Shrestha, Keshav Bhattrai and Rabindra Mishra in leading roles.

The movie features cinematography of Apal Singh and Jyoti Keshar Simha, music direction of Richard Horowitz, Vibek, Maddala, editing of Davit Barker, Deepak Rauniyar, Rita Mehaer, story of Deepak Rauniyar, Abinash Bikram Shah, Kedar Sharma, Khagendra Lamichane script of Abinash Bikram Shah and the dialogue of Abinash Bikram Shah.

Crew Background

The strong point of the movie ‘Highway’ is that it contains most of the preferred Nepali actors of the Nepali film industry. Some of the actors in the movie had been very successful and are considered  the gems of the Nepali film industry. Karma, Reecha Sharma and Binaya Shrestha are known by the audience from their last superhit movie ‘First Love’. Another successful movie ‘Loot‘ had featured to actors present in ‘Highway’ – actors Dayahang Rai (Gofle) and Saugat Malla (Hakku Kale).

The director, Deepak Rauniyar, is also a journalist and he had previously directed two short films ‘Pooja’ and ‘Chaukhat’. Both of his short film were appreciated by the audiences. The feature movie ‘Highway’ is his first directorial venture based on his experience of disruption of traffic by regular strikes (Nepal bandha).

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Miss SLC Teen for 2012 – Bibita Chand

Bibita Chand, 16, was crowned Miss SLC 2012 in the competition entitled “Miss SLC Teen” organized by Bandana Kala Kendra and Team Work Nepal at Rastriya Nachghar Saturday.

Bibita, who passed her SLC examinations from Siddhartha Banasthali Institute of Kathmandu, left behind other 14 contestants. Susma Tamang from Naya Bazaar won the first runner-up title and the second runner-up was Nisha Nepal from New Baneshwor.

To the question, “What do you want to be: A successful person or good human being?”, Bibita answered that she wanted to be a good human being because positive quality, good personality, and discipline were always there in good human beings which can also be found in successful persons and won the title. The title winner received full scholarship at Premier College and a purse of Rs. 30,000.

Dramatist Bijay Bisfot, Principal of Premier College Nabaraj Subedi, Beautician Nanu Rajbhandari, Coordinator of Trikon Public School Chakra Tamang were in the panel of judges. (Photo Credit: Republica)

Father jailed for 25 years on charge of Rape

Bhim Bahadur Subedi, a resident of Hetaunda Municipality-4, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on the charge of raping his daughter on April 24 while she was alone at home.

Neighbours had informed the police after hearing the girl scream and Subedi was taken into custody, according to RSS Reports. The Makwanpur District Court handed down 15-year imprisonment for rape and an additional 10-year imprisonment for incest on Subedi.

Nepali Movie – Daud

Ramesh Kumar Pandey presents, Raj Basnet’s
Nepali Movie – Daud (2007)
Starring – Sushil Chhetri, Prerana Sharma, Kunjana Ghimire, Kedar Ghimire , Sitaram Kattel (Comedy serial Meri Bassai’s Suntali, Dhurmus, and Magne Budho) etc.
Writer/Director – Kamal Mainali

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Movie Review – Malati Ko Bhatti

After struggle in fixing the release date, ‘Malati Ko Bhatti’ was finally released in about 56 theatres all over Nepal. ‘Malati Ko Bhatti’ is the debut directorial venture of Ganesh Dev Pandey featuring actors/actresses Rekha Thapa, Jiwan Luitel, Nandita KC and Sunil Thapa in main roles.

Story:

The movie ‘Malati Ko Bhatti’ is the story of Aditya Sharma (Jiwan Luitel) frustrated with his life due to his unsuccessful love-marriage. Aditya’s wife, Sabitri (Nandita K C) is more fascinated towards parties, clubs, casino and gambling rather than her family. Aditya drinks a lot and becomes addicted to alcohol. He met Malati (Rekha Thapa) while visiting a small bar owned by her and known as Malati ko Bhatti. While visiting the Bhatti, Aditya and Malati got attracted towards each other and started a relationship.

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Sherlyn Chopra tweets nudes, to be featured in Playboy

Bollywood actress are moving ahead in the so called ‘Laxman Rekha’ of decency and is posing for the nude magazine Playboy.

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